• Thumbnail for Sylvester Medal
    The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize....
    47 KB (2,331 words) - 18:16, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Joseph Sylvester
    James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory...
    21 KB (2,047 words) - 18:42, 3 July 2024
  • by William Steig, and published in 1969. It won the Caldecott Medal in 1970. Sylvester Duncan, a young donkey from the fictional community of Oatsdale...
    4 KB (361 words) - 06:44, 6 February 2024
  • Sylvester (crater), an impact crater on the Moon Sylvester Medal, given by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research Sylvester...
    5 KB (506 words) - 11:40, 30 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sylvester Antolak
    Sylvester Antolak (September 10, 1918 – May 24, 1944) was a United States Army Sergeant who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for actions on May...
    11 KB (1,044 words) - 23:41, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bertrand Russell
    freedom of thought". He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963). Bertrand...
    139 KB (15,010 words) - 00:47, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Georg Cantor
    by later accolades. In 1904, the Royal Society awarded Cantor its Sylvester Medal, the highest honor it can confer for work in mathematics. David Hilbert...
    83 KB (9,976 words) - 01:37, 12 June 2024
  • Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester...
    30 KB (3,355 words) - 06:51, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Henry Young
    1924. In 1917 he was awarded the De Morgan Medal of London Mathematical Society and in 1928 the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society. He served as the president...
    4 KB (347 words) - 03:00, 31 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Edensor Littlewood
    John Edensor Littlewood (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958. He was president of the London Mathematical...
    15 KB (1,586 words) - 02:12, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for John G. Thompson
    John G. Thompson (category National Medal of Science laureates)
    the United States National Medal of Science in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a recipient of its Sylvester Medal in 1985. He is a member of...
    9 KB (664 words) - 19:32, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roger Heath-Brown
    American Mathematical Society. In 2022 the Royal Society awarded him the Sylvester Medal "for his many important contributions to the study of prime numbers...
    9 KB (726 words) - 06:47, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Sarnak
    2019 he became the 10th non-British citizen to ever be awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society. In 2024 he received the Shaw Prize. Sarnak, Peter...
    11 KB (972 words) - 14:28, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philip Hall
    Medal for mathematics, and later at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 and awarded its Sylvester Medal in...
    5 KB (350 words) - 21:03, 18 May 2024
  • 1934 made FRS and in 1952 won the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society. He received in 1950 the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society...
    9 KB (737 words) - 04:11, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Graeme Segal
    an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society in 2010. He was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy...
    6 KB (446 words) - 18:57, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bryan John Birch
    fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2020 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society. Computers in Number Theory. (editor). London:...
    5 KB (405 words) - 03:42, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean Gaston Darboux
    Society and the American Philosophical Society; in 1916, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society. In 1908, he was a plenary speaker at the International...
    11 KB (874 words) - 18:43, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mary Cartwright
    Mathematical Society (in 1961–62) to receive the Sylvester Medal (in 1964) to receive the De Morgan Medal, the highest award of the London Mathematical Society...
    14 KB (1,457 words) - 22:05, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
    Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950 and in 1997 he was awarded their Sylvester Medal. In 1990, he became a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts...
    16 KB (1,583 words) - 23:28, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miles Reid
    study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties. In 2023 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society. Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given...
    5 KB (331 words) - 12:38, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for E. T. Whittaker
    E. T. Whittaker (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society for "his original contributions to both pure and applied mathematics". He then received the De Morgan Medal from...
    61 KB (6,637 words) - 08:09, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tullio Levi-Civita
    Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1917. The Royal Society awarded him the Sylvester Medal in 1922 and elected him as a foreign member in 1930. He became an honorary...
    21 KB (1,947 words) - 06:41, 27 April 2024
  • from 1935-1947. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1931 De Morgan Medal, 1953 Sylvester Medal, 1955 Berwick Prize winner, 1956 The Zeta-Function of Riemann...
    6 KB (428 words) - 06:48, 6 May 2024
  • elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1946, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society. He was president of the London Mathematical Society...
    9 KB (813 words) - 06:02, 5 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ben Green (mathematician)
    Ramanujan Prize 2008: European Mathematical Society prize recipient 2014: Sylvester Medal, awarded by the Royal Society. 2019: Senior Whitehead Prize of the...
    13 KB (1,331 words) - 06:01, 25 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nigel Hitchin
    of Jesus College in 1998, and the Senior Berwick Prize (1990), the Sylvester Medal (2000) and the Pólya Prize (2002) have been awarded to him in honour...
    8 KB (662 words) - 05:35, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Augustus Edward Hough Love
    Augustus Edward Hough Love (category Royal Medal winners)
    include the Royal Society Royal Medal in 1909 and Sylvester Medal in 1937, and the London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal in 1926. He was secretary to...
    6 KB (548 words) - 08:09, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Max Newman
    elected 1939 Royal Society Sylvester Medal, awarded 1958 London Mathematical Society, President 1949–1951 LMS De Morgan Medal, awarded 1962 D.Sc. University...
    22 KB (2,320 words) - 19:58, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Savilian Professor of Geometry
    life and work of James Sylvester (professor 1883–94) was commemorated by the Royal Society by the inauguration of the Sylvester Medal; this was won by a later...
    44 KB (2,552 words) - 08:47, 6 April 2023